https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/what-sincerity-looks-like.html?mcubz=3&_r=0
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
"Swift is a phenomenally talented and beautiful songwriter who has lost touch with herself and seems to have been swallowed by the ethos of the Trump era."
david brooks retire bitch
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
yeah that seems willfully ignorant"some ordinary-looking backup singers behind him"
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
"It’s interesting how corporate the video looks and the song sounds. It’s been a long time since the Sex Pistols burst on the scene."
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
EVER FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BEEN CHEATED???
Back in the 1950s, sincerity seemed treacly and boring, and authenticity, in the form of, say, Johnny Cash, seemed daring and new. But now rebellious authenticity is the familiar corporate success formula, and sincerity, like Chance the Rapper’s, is practically revolutionary.
https://media.giphy.com/media/26BRq84rhISRcFVUQ/giphy.gif
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
A person has a soul, which is what Chance is worrying about. A brand has a reputation, which is the title of Swift’s next album. A person has private dignity. A brand is a creation for an audience.
so was chance acting like a person or a brand when his management went after a MTV News writer
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
lol SERIOUSLY
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
maybe he was just acting like a man... the most authentic way to act of all
he was certainly not acting as a rapper
― President Keyes, Friday, 29 September 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
Sincerity is the new authenticity.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
Aw, that takes me back. ILM circa 2005: fake is the new real / real is the new fake
― cornballio (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
I hope we get another "Mean" out of this.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I mean we kind of already have
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41RG9XYD33L._SX305_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
as in the rapper obv
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 September 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
ah, i hated that book so much 20 years ago—remember when he and wendy shalit were being pitched as the ivy leaguers who TOLD IT LIKE IT WAS (i.e. that america should be more conservative)? misty, watercolored, etc.
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
dude got woke. it turns out that women make great music. if you really listen. while you are eating breakfast.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/magazine/should-women-make-their-own-pop-music-canon.html?referer
THIS IS NOT THE WORST MUSIC WRITING. just didn't know where else to put it.
kinda would have respected him more if he had gone first person here. the marathon listening session he describes at the beginning seems like penance or something:
"We take female musicians just seriously enough not to notice that we don’t actually take them seriously enough."
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
lol at Wesley Morris suddenly getting woke
― President Keyes, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
We should start new thread for this and it's ilk called 'OK, is this the wokest piece of music writing ever?'
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
Also, what New York does he live in where he doesn't hear women. I hear "Hips Don't Lie" all the time.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
he just hears the beatles everywhere
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
The other day, I spent 75 minutes at a coffee shop and heard, one after the other, the Doors, Radiohead and Elvis Costello.
lasted 74 minutes longer than I would've
― The Walter Mittyville Horror (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
The other day, I spent 75 minutes at a coffee shop
The saddest 11 words I've read all year, maybe.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
it's hard when you're trying to stay sober
― The Walter Mittyville Horror (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
I write a scathing Yelp review if I spend more than 5 minutes in a coffee shop without hearing Tribe 8's "Neanderthal Dyke" playing at deafening volumes
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
what kind of new york does he live in where people eat hoagies???? IT'S CALLED A HERO
― maura, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
anyway ban all critical writing that uses 'we' as a rhetorical framework, because it ALWAYS lands poorly
― maura, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
yes^
― marcos, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
xxp
Morris grew up in Philadelphia. He attended high school at Girard College in 1993, graduating in 1993.[5] While a high school student, he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer's teen supplement, "Yo! Fresh Ink."[6]
― Mordy, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
Yep; I've been saying this for years.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
we agree then
― j., Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
I sometimes spend three hours grading, writing, and reading at a Starbucks on weekends, but I killed the barista and his Elvis Costello playlist three years ago.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
the spurlockesque stunt of listening to women
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
fetishize this
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
fuck, i fucked up the joke
fetishize me
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
If the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” comes on while I’m waiting for a hoagie, I’m not going to riot. I’ll just stand there in a state of stupid happiness while I sing the whole song and mime the whistle parts.
― nomar, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
oh god I know this guy
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
he also yells PUMP IT UP and mimes the organ part
also as someone who spends... significantly more than 75 minutes a day at coffee shops (my home wi-fi is beyond shitty), I don't remember a single playlist with no women.
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
maybe he actually hangs out at a Subway because its the only place where he can get a sandwich that reminds him of his beloved hoagies from Wawa and he's too embarrassed to mention it. #yophilly
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
i believe if you're from philly you can order a "playlist with" or a "playlist without."
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
HEY I'M PONTIFICATIN' HEAH
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
I'm at coffee shop now, and it's blasting Sky Ferreira's "You're Not the One."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
coffee is called "joe," a man's name, makes you think.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
you never watched "Facts of Life" did you
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
Central Perk was pretty woke,as they only had one performer, Phoebe
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
Central Perk was run by a stalker though....
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
http://www.ocweekly.com/music/why-we-still-cant-get-enough-of-depeche-mode-8492499
y'all
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link